Cultural Neutrality Is a Dangerous Lie ｜ 1⧸27⧸23
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One of the more encouraging phenomena over the last few years has been the growing awareness
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around the radical progressive indoctrination of children and young people in the United States.
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In some ways, it was impossible to avoid as woke propaganda became the default message
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of every movie, television show, book, and video game.
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When every corporation and sports team is wrapping its logo in a rainbow flag,
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Individuals like Chris Ruffo and accounts like Libs of TikTok on Twitter have done the Lord's
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work in exposing the obscene, vile, and hateful nature of the material that the left is exposing
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The call to end progressive indoctrination is both understandable and justifiable,
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that many of those who oppose wokeness have made the error of suggesting a return to an era
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of cultural neutrality and an unbiased public square.
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This mythical era never existed, and the delusion of cultural neutrality is a dangerous one that
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leaves society defenseless against ideologies that seek to destroy it from within.
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It's become common practice for LGBTQ advocates to point at church services or videos of children
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learning to responsibly handle firearms and allege that these activities are more akin
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to indoctrination than any drag queen performance.
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We would be in a much better shape if church services did a better job of instilling the
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Things that seem obviously wholesome and healthy to conservatives are scary and threatening
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The difference between moral visions is so radical that what seems only natural to one
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Conservatives are becoming more comfortable with pushing back against an ideology that is
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hostile to their values and to their children's well-being.
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But they still fail to grasp how that ideology was allowed to take hold in the first place.
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When conservatives argue against woke cultural indoctrination, they generally appeal to the
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idea of value-neutral institutions that do their job without advancing any worldview.
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And when I say liberal, I don't mean progressive or woke.
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A tradition of thought that many conservatives will still actively identify with today.
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Too many on the right have bought into the notion that many social institutions,
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like government and corporations, exist in a secular space where decisions are made independent
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Small government conservatives just want to be left alone, and they were convinced to
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abandon the representation of their own values in the public square by an argument of mutual
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This notion is also very appealing to disaffected centrists, former progressives who find the
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current revolution too radical for their own tastes.
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The centrists still consider conservative values backward and dangerous, but they do seek a
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return to the liberalism of the 1990s, the sort that still made arguments about free speech.
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They would balk at the reintroduction of Christianity into public life, but they are willing to make
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common cause with conservatives if they stick to the notion of institutional neutrality.
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The centrists don't want their kids learning gender theory in third grade, but they would
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be just as outraged if it were the Ten Commandments.
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The ideological disarmament promised to conservatives never came, and they quickly found themselves
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the target of cultural persecution with no defense other than an appeal to the neutrality
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by which the left never tended to abide in the first place.
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Former NFL coach Tony Dungy and NHL player Ivan Pravarov both became targets of the woke mob
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Dungy attended the March for Life, and Pravarov refused to wear the pride jersey mandated by the
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Sports commentators attacked both men as intolerant bigots, and some went so far as to suggest that
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Pravarov should be deported back to his native Russia for heresy against the new state religion.
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Many Christians quickly responded by asking for tolerance of their beliefs, the same tolerance
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that they had been commanded to extend to others, but the left is not that foolish.
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A political movement that is willing to mutilate children in the name of gender ideology doesn't
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care about appeals to cultural neutrality. Progressives understand that their religion
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is incompatible with Christianity and always has been. Calls for mandatory toleration were
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always just points of entry into America's institutions, never a shared principle to be
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extended to Christians or any other belief system that would compete with progressivism.
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The evidence of this is very clear, as the left has now made it all but impossible for those who
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hold to Orthodox Christian doctrine to interact with public institutions. Holding basic beliefs
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about the definition of marriage will get you fired from most corporate employment, chased out of a
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sports league, and disqualified from holding most government positions. For progressives,
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tolerance means their views reign supreme without question, and they feel no shame in destroying the
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lives of anyone willing to challenge their dominance. Liberalism offered Americans a vision
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of neutral institutions that would allow for a society free of competing moral visions. All of the
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conflict around essential questions about religion or ultimate meaning could be put aside as everyone
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operated on a minimum acceptable morality that would allow for different groups to work together in
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the marketplace. Neutral institutions would eschew ideology in favor of objective and expert
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management that would improve the lives of society as a whole. This was always a lie. There is no such
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thing as a neutral institution. Governments, corporations, and media are constantly making
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decisions of value, and those decisions will be made based on a moral framework. The moral framework
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on which social institutions make decisions will be transmitted through everything they do. There's just no way to
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avoid that truth. A religion that believes that drag shows are good for children but church services are
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bad for them will not share institutions with Christians. It will either expel them or it will be
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expelled. Liberalism cannot mediate this conflict of moral visions. Someone wins and someone loses.
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There is no third option. This does not mean that America must become some cartoonishly liberal notion
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of a theocracy like The Handmaid's Tale. But it does mean that conservatives need to assert a competing
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vision. Even if the right could strip wokeness out of every American institution, attempting to return to
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a value-neutral space simply invites the next predatory ideology to take hold. James Burnham called
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liberalism the ideology of Western suicide because it made a society incapable of defending its own values
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and culture. The question is not should your society transmit values through its institutions. The
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question is what values will your society transmit through its institutions. A positive vision is the
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only thing that will protect American institutions from hostile ideology and conservatives must provide
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